By day, the combine is a news-producing machine in which coaches, general managers and draft-eligible prospects generate headlines for more than 1,000 credentialed reporters. By night, the combine is a gossiper’s dream in which league personnel stuff the same handful of bars each year. The times may change, the drinking establishments don’t.

In other words, it’s only a small exaggeration to say more business gets done after 11 p.m. than during the normal working hours. And while storylines involving the Packers are less public than other teams, that doesn’t mean there isn’t chatter and discussion throughout the week.

Here are some nuggets The Athletic Wisconsin learned after speaking with a variety of sources in Indianapolis:

1. Even though the Packers enter the free-agency cycle with a relatively clean slate — there aren’t any players they...